This edition connects four female writers from two different countries, presenting the English translations of two of the most popular eighteenth-century French novels and a sequel to one of them.
This edition connects four female writers from two different countries, presenting the English translations of two of the most popular eighteenth-cent...
In this book, Marijn S. Kaplan juxtaposes Riccoboni’s epistolary fiction with some of her relatively unknown letters to her publisher, editors, Diderot, Laclos etc. (included, with translations), tracing related proto-feminist strategies in both to her first novel Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757).
In this book, Marijn S. Kaplan juxtaposes Riccoboni’s epistolary fiction with some of her relatively unknown letters to her publisher, editors, Dide...